Various Artists - Judgment Day: Songs Of Robert Johnson ( Audio CD ) 2004

Description: [DOS-CWW1A149-5Z-026656290329] NEW! Sealed! ----- from New York's Largest Selection of Entertainment Media Since 1976! A brilliant assimilator, Robert Johnson took stock community blues material and infused it with his own personality, and no doubt well aware that a big part of a performer's charisma was a little dose of mystery, layered his most striking songs with a vague and ominous melodrama, even appropriating the old myth of bartering away one's soul to the devil at a crossroads to attain riches in this world at the expense of the next one. This concept of remolding the country blues tradition to fit his own particular musical and cultural needs makes Johnson somewhat of a postmodernist, and it's fitting that he was essentially the end of the line for acoustic country blues, for he had honed the genre into a sharp and concise craft. After Johnson the blues became primarily both electric and urban, and although several of Johnson's songs ended up staples in the standard blues kit bag, his versions remain the definitive ones. This intriguing set of 21st century interpretations of Johnson songs doesn't change that, but the performers here at least try to stretch the boundaries a little bit, with understandably mixed results. Jeff Jacobs (who produced this collection) turns "If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day" into a dirty electric blues and howling electronica hybrid that certainly brings out the nastiness at the center of Johnson's original, while Cathy Richardson restructures "Preachin' Blues" into a thoroughly contemporary song as remote from the original as a computer hard drive is from a steam locomotive's boiler. In most cases, though, Johnson's songs are simply amped up to sound big and huge, which is fine as far as it goes, but in the end just serves to show how effective Johnson's sparse, cut-to-the-very-bone approach really was in the first place. Truthfully, all it takes to bring Robert Johnson into the 21st century is to download one of his original songs. The hellhounds are still out there, and so are the crossroads.CONDITION: NEWTRACK LISTING1 Ramblin' on My Mind 5:002 Stop Breakin' Down Blues 5:013 32-20 Blues 5:054 Traveling Riverside Blues 4:165 If I Had Possession over Judgement Day 4:326 Stones in My Passway 5:037 Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped the Devil) 4:428 Me and the Devil Blues 4:349 Hell Hound on My Trail 4:0510 Crossroad Blues 4:5611 Come on in My Kitchen 5:15 International Buyers - Please Note: Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to buying. Visit My eBay Store: DiscoramaOverstock

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